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Planck, Coulomb, Dirac, Fermi, Newton, Faraday, Avagadro, etc might think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant#Table_of_physical_constants https
by robotresearcher 9y ago
Planck, Coulomb, Dirac, Fermi, Newton, Faraday, Avagadro, etc might think so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant#Table_of_physical_constants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant#Table_of_phy...
Archimedes, Pythagoras and Euler might agree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant
- nextstep 9y agoThose people didn't invent those definitions...
- mcgarnagle 9y ago... i don't follow, can you elaborate?
- filmor 9y agoThe units were names in honpur of those people, they (usually) didn't define them themselves.
- robotresearcher 9y agoBah. That's either wrong or overly pedantic, depending on the case. At least Newton's lab of universal gravitation and Coulomb's law defined their eponymous constants directly. In other cases the people doing the defining named them retrospectively after the originator of, or most significant contributor to, the concept that motivated the definition. The point is that we ascribe enough invention to these definitions to commonly name them after the people who invented them.
- jgtrosh 9y agoAlso, giving a name to a formula is "inventing a definition". If you're a programmer and you write a function, or assign the result of an operation to a variable, the act of naming that function or variable can be considered the same.